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In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services — Gmail, Search, YouTube and more — and sharing data on user activity across all of them.

Google-owned YouTube has published some stats illustrating the growth in our love of sharing cat videos and captioning angry Hitler, claiming an average of 60 hours of new video is now uploaded to the site every minute.

In what looks like a desperate preventive measure in reaction to the Megaupload shutdown, FileSonic has disabled all file sharing capabilities and is now nothing more than a personal storage solution. It looks like the Feds' scare tactic of going after the big fish in Megaupload is beginning to scare other file sharing sites.

The FBI shuttered file-sharing web site MegaUpload yesterday; arrested its executives, and have called the site an "international organised criminal enterprise." Even though there's little doubt that MegaUpload was host to some copyrighted material, it was also a great way to upload and share large files, like photo archives and video, and send them to friends without worrying about hosting, Dropbox quotas, or overloaded inboxes. Now that it's gone however, here are some other great sites that let you share large files effortlessly.

Following in the footsteps of the Spotify-Facebook union, Google is reported to be preparing Google+ integration into its forthcoming Google Music store. You'll be able to share purchased tracks for one free listening with your G+ friends.